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Reconstruction:Latin/admortire

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This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

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Etymology

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From ad- +‎ mort(u)us (dead) +‎ -īre (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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*admortīre (Proto-Romance)

  1. deaden, make numb

Reconstruction notes

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3SG */ammorˈtesket/ > Romanian amorțește, Portuguese amortece.

Conjugations such as the above were used to build new infinitives in Sardinian and Ibero-Romance.

Derived terms

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  • *admorticīre
    • Catalan: esmorteir (with substitution of prefix)

Descendants

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References

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